“Fairfax’s Ross Gittins has nicely summed-up how the older generations are screwing over the young, and why our politicians are only too willing to oblige them…” How the old screw over the young – Leith Van Onselen,MACRO BUSINESS

“Psychological abusers exploit their victims by fostering unearned guilt, and encouraging emotion over reason and facts. That’s precisely what Obama is doing here. He’s exploiting a tragic occurrence in South Carolina as an opportunity to outlaw guns, or at least move us further towards outlawing guns.” The Bodies Not Yet Cold, Obama and Biden Exploit a Tragic Event – DR HURD.COM

“The economic miracle that is China is unprecedented in human history. There has simply been nothing like it.” The People’s Republic of Debt – John Mauldin, MAULDIN ECONOMICS

“The world has changed because of his invention. The businesses which sell washing machines, the engineers who design better ones, the steel workers who find cheaper ways to create the necessary raw materials — they all contribute to an exponential rise in people’s standard of living.” Wealth Must Be Created Before We Can Give It To the Poor – Steve Patterson, MISES DAILY

“Tax havens have a valuable role in the global economy. They facilitate the efficient allocation of capital; they encourage saving and investment; and because of tax competition, they encourage better policy in the rest of the world.” The Moral Case for Tax Havens – Doug Casey, INTERNATIONAL MAN

“In an interview with CNBC today Diane DiMartino Booth, a former adviser to recently retired Dallas Fed president Dick Fisher, refers to Ludwig von Mises as "my long-departed hero." She notes that Mises "coined the term malinvestment" and "wrote about it extensively." She characterizes the housing crisis as a "very identifiable bubble" that was "an outlet for the malinvestment" caused by easy money. She goes on to warn…” Former Fed Adviser Embraces Mises and the Austrian Business Cycle Theory – MISES WIRE

“Now, the first goal seems to be self-promotion — the fame part, the ‘brand.’ That’s because we know that, in this frenetic fight for eyeballs at all costs, the attribute that is most rewarded is screeching ubiquity, not talent.” Gene Weingarten: How branding is ruining journalism – WASHINGTON POST

“The Chinese were brilliant at making things if other people brought them the plans. But they did not innovate and they did not invent. They did not imagine. So they sent a delegation to the US, to Apple, to Microsoft, to Google, and they asked the people there who were inventing the future about themselves. And they found that all of them had read science fiction when they were boys or girls." Neil Gaiman talks about Science fiction – SKrashen

“Sixty years ago, Sir Antony Fisher founded the Institute of Economic Affairs (IEA), realising an idea given to him by the economist Friedrich Hayek seven years earlier. The IEA is one of the oldest think tanks, and one of the most successful, something even its opponents freely concede. But what does success mean in this context?” Sixty years on: Why the battle for a free society is still yet to be won – Steve Davies, CITY A.M.

“Maybe there is a silver lining to the Rachel Dolezal / Sen. Elizabeth Warren race frauds. If racial identity and gender identity have become matters of personal preference, i.e., how you choose to identify yourself is how the world should treat you, then the entire race-based / gender-based affirmative action apparatus could be brought to its knees.” Rachel Dolezal: The Silver Lining – POWERLINE

“Few seem to want to consider that Dolezal was motivated by empathy, rather than hatred, and that her eccentric behaviour was only an extreme version of the more commonplace sentiment of white guilt.” White Guilt Never Helped Anyone – James Heartfield, SPIKED

“Actually, in this case the issue is the individual. The NAACP should celebrate Dolezal, not be ashamed of her. Why? Because she represents exactly what they stand for: The triumph of group identity over the individual; and the importance of racial victimhood over and above individualism, and individual rights.” Promised a “Colour Blind” Society, We Got Rachel Dolezal Instead – DR HURD.COM

“Am I just imagining it or does it seem to you as though the people who are quick to use the race card, who lecture us about the importance of being blind to colour, are usually the last to take their own advice and are constantly obsessed by race?” Ethnic Politics & the World of Make Believe – Peter Wehner, REAL CLEAR POLITICS

“There is a transformation at work today in the American left. Not an introduction of new or different ideas—to the contrary, it is arguable that the left has had no new or different ideas since the 1960s. Rather, the transformation at work is the result of a generation of leftists, for the first time, taking those ideas seriously and applying them consistently across a broad spectrum of issues.” Tyranny of the Victims – THE MENDENHALL

“Aside from the serious retraction-worthy fabrications on which this article depends – more on those in a minute – the entire report is a self-negating joke. It reads like a parody I might quickly whip up in order to illustrate the core sickness of western journalism.” Rupert’s London Rag Smears Snowden Again——Lapdog Journalism At Its Worst – Glenn Greenwald, CONTRA CORNER

“The specifics of the programs exposed by Snowden are far too extensive to detail in a single article, but they went way beyond anything that any reasonable person could view as necessary, appropriate or useful to combating terrorism. Nor could it be sensibly argued that the extent of the surveillance was compatible with respect for individual rights.” Thank You, Edward Snowden – Adam Allouba, LE QUEBECOIS LIBRE

“Hackers (i.e. the Chinese) have the records of every single American public service employee, right down to their applications to work in the foreign service, where they are asked to list any possible issues in their lives that others could use to blackmail them. But who has to hack when they are building the system themselves.” Public sector competence and the sighting of unicorns – LAW OF MARKETS

“Forty five years ago when the first Earth Day was held, the catastrophe that awaited us was mass starvation, lost farmland, overpopulation, our supplies of oil and gas running on empty, early death, nuclear winter, and believe it or not, a coming second ice age. Every single one of those predictions was not just wrong, but spectacularly wrong. The opposite occurred. But the doomsday machine rolls on.” State of the Planet: Better Than Ever – Stephen Moore, HERITAGE FOUNDATION

“Remember President Obama’s “you didn’t build that” remark to entrepreneurs, during his 2012 presidential campaign? ‘Somebody invested in roads and bridges. If you’ve got a business — you didn’t build that. Somebody else made that happen. The Internet didn’t get invented on its own. Government research created the Internet so that all the companies could make money off the Internet’.” Government Spending on "Innovation": The True Cost Is Higher Than You Think – Peter Klein, MISES DAILY

“The stories are all over the Internet. Governments are forcing us into a cashless society. Supposedly the pretext is terrorism, and the real reason is to take more control. No doubt more power appeals to politicians, and banning cash seems like the next step after mandatory reporting of cash transactions. However, I think there is a more serious driver than simple power lust. A more compelling case is that cash banning is the logical follow up to bail-ins.” They’re Coming to Take Away Your Cash – Keith Weiner, CAPITALISM MAGAZINE

”From Year 1 to today, Angus Maddison, a British economist who specialised in measurement and analysis of economic growth and development, combined modern research techniques with his own extensive knowledge of economic history to estimate the historical spread of The Wealth of Nations..

“Great essay making the case that an independent mind is very hard to achieve against the desire to fit in and the fear of loneliness. I keep coming back to Ibsen's play, An Enemy of the People, with it's closing statement that he who stands alone is the strongest person in the world. I think Dr. Peikoff's exposition of the play is the most powerful and yet simple inspiration to protect one's brain from "mind rape". But the ultimate defense is to let reality be your only concern and dispense with all middle men between one's consciousness and the facts.” How To Escape The Age Of Mass Delusion – Stella Morabito, THE FEDERALIST

“An important new source of funding to help spread Objectivism was announced last year in July. The Objectivist Venture Fund has committed up to one million dollars to support Objectivists with imagination and persistence…” The Objectivist Venture Fund Helps Break New Ground – VOICES FOR REASON

New York’s most famous museum, under construction in 1957:

For me, this looks fascinating. Settle back and learn about innovative Japanese decorative art that inspired European artists in the 19th century

Robert Fripp and David Cross update a classic theme. (From their new album Starless Starlight)

And looking forward to this on Monday! What’s it about? Well, Wagner’s unique interpretation when he read the world’s biggest miserabalist, Arthur Schopenhauer) was that real deep understanding of the world’s depths is only possible through two things: sex and music. And Wagner thought:”I’m the man!.” So here, complete with foreplay (remembering that it’s all in the music) …

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